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Title:

Earnings from learning : the rise of for-profit universities / edited by David W. Breneman, Brian Pusser, and Sarah E. Turner.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xv, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

For-profit universities and colleges--United States.
Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States.

Other Authors:

Breneman, David W.
Pusser, Brian.
Turner, Sarah E., 1966-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The contemporary provision of for-profit higher education : mapping the competitive market / David W. Breneman, Brian Pusser, and Sarah E. Turner -- Higher education, markets, and the preservation of the public good / Brian Pusser -- For-profit colleges in the context of the market for higher education / Sarah E. Turner -- The university of Phoenix : icon of for-profit higher education / David W. Breneman -- Profit centers in service to the academic core / Dudley J. Doane and Brian Pusser -- The market for higher education at a distance : traditional institutions and the costs of instructional technology / Saul Fisher -- Capital romance : why wall street fell in love with higher education / Andreas Ortmann -- A crowded lobby : nonprofit and for-profit universities and the emerging politics of higher education / Brian Pusser and David A. Wolcott.

Series:

SUNY series, frontiers in education

ISBN:

9780791468395
9780791468401
9780791468401 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0791468402 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791468395 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0791468399 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61651813

LCCN:

2005026765

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)